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Healthy Starts (Te Piripohotanga)

Overview

The project related to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) or passive smoking and the effects on the respiratory health of Indigenous infants (Australian and New Zealand).

The project tested whether a family based program about ETS will help to reduce the number of clinic presentations of Indigenous infants for respiratory illnesses in the first 12 months of their lives.